The South Beach hotel clerk accused of killing the popular neighborhood cat — with a crossbow arrow to the skull — has been deported to his native Greece before Miami state prosecutors could ever take him to trial.

Georgios Kollias, 37, was booted from the country on Nov. 29, according to the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office. Immigration officers whisked him away from a Miami-Dade jail 12 days after his July arrest. He spent four months in a federal detention center before he was put on a plane for Greece.

The move came as a disappointment to prosecutors who hoped to put Kollias in jail or prison for a bloody killing that drew widespread attention from animal-rights activists and cat lovers.